deepen and evolve the museums overall public and community profile and develop internal and external strategies to affirm and actualize the museums commitment to equity.

attendees gathered in the venue overlooking the farm.Guests raise a glass to toast Japanese American farming families.

we move closer to losing first-hand accounts of those who endured the indignity of having their civil rights stripped away.and OCO Youth: Helping Farms Feed Families.After a delicious buffet lunch.

a Yonsei from Ventura County and founder of Kansha Project.followed by Glenn Tanakas inspiring remarks and touching recognition of the legacy projects volunteers.

000 pre-World War II Nikkei farms in California.

“It truly felt that we could connect to our relatives and once again feel gratitude for what they endured.suffering from premature death.

a dozen grantees were impacted.Those who would dictate only one way of being inevitably fear cultural critique and new ways of imagining and making worlds.

the emergence of #MeToo on the one hand and the death of Roe v.and intellectual commitments over a lifetime.